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Old April 28th, 2016 #1
Robbie Key
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Default China passes law imposing security controls on foreign NGOs

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A Chinese government offensive against civil society that campaigners describe as the worst in nearly three decades has intensified with Beijing’s approval on Thursday of a controversial new law that gives security forces control over foreign NGOs operating in the country.

Campaigners attacked the move as the latest phase of president Xi Jinping’s bid to rein in opposition to the Communist party. They said it represented a severe blow to non-profit groups involved in issues such as the environment, public health and education, as well as human rights.

Lu Jun, a well-known social activist who was forced to move to the US last year after his organisation was targeted by law enforcement, described the decision to give greater powers to police as a disaster.

“The real purpose of the foreign NGO law is to restrict foreign NGOs’ activities in China and to restrict domestic-rights NGOs’ activities in China by cutting the connection between [the two],” he said.

Lu, whose group, Yirenping, has campaigned on health and employment issues, claimed Beijing was attempting to use the new legislation to neutralise foreign-supported groups that it suspected were attempting to destabilise the government. “They consider foreign NGOs and some domestic NGOs as a threat to their regime,” he said.

Members of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, green-lit the long-awaited law on Thursday afternoon, according to Xinhua, the country’s official news agency.

The foreign NGO “management” law, which will come into effect on 1 January 2017, stipulates that any group wishing to operate in China must register with public security officials. Foreign NGOs must refrain from engaging in political or religious activities or acting in a way that damages “China’s national interests” or “ethnic unity”, according to a 15-page outline of the law distributed to the media.

Criminal measures will be taken against any individual who is directly responsible for a foreign NGO found to have engaged in activities that “split the country or damage national unity or subvert the state”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...gos?CMP=twt_gu
 
Old April 28th, 2016 #2
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Most NGOs are some kind of a front.
 
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